September 2007 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

LIS Web Resources
by Muniraj. T 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

LIS Web Resources This site provides some useful links to the Library web resources. LINK : http://www.library.uiuc.edu/lsx/webresources.html Resources for Electronic Resource Management ERIL: Electronic Resources in Libraries is a community of librarians concerned with the practical aspects of managing electronic resources in libraries. http://www.joanconger.net/ERIL/resources.html MUNIRAJU.T PES Institute of Technology t_muniraj(a)yahoo.co.in http://muniraj.t.googlepages.com/ http://www.lisresearch.blogspot.com/ 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Room To Read set to open 1,600 libraries in India
by madhuresh.singhal 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

You may like to know about the following news item taken from http://www.livemint.com/2007/09/13011301/Room-To-Read-targets-local-cor. html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- Room To Read targets local corporate donors to scale up The new Room to Read libraries will add to those already operational in schools in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and five other countries New Delhi: John Wood, the founder of the non-profit Room To Read libraries, likes to benchmark his efforts against the coffee retailer Starbucks. "In the 8th year after its IPO, Starbucks opened 1,000 outlets. We are opening 1,600 libraries this year," says Wood, a former Microsoft Corp. executive who is in India looking for corporate donors. The new Room to Read libraries will add to those already operational in schools in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and five other countries. Besides libraries, the organization funds scholarships for girls, sets up computer labs for students, publishes books in local languages and in some countries, albeit not in India, runs schools as well. The organization got a $1 million (about Rs4 crore) grant from investment bank Goldman Sachs Goup, earlier this year to fund libraries in India. It also got a $249,000 (about Rs 1 crore) grant from Credit Suisse to build libraries and computer labs here. Now, Wood is hoping Indian donors will step forward as well. "Corporate social responsibility has to go beyond what can I do to look good," he says. "And India's growth has to go beyond how many Pizza Huts can be opened per capita." Wood plans to enlist the Young Presidents' Organisation, a non-governmental organization comprising company presidents and CEOs, for his fund-raising efforts in Mumbai. The last reliable count done by the Indian government in 2005 with the Indian Market Research Bureau put the number of out-of-school children at 13.4 million, a figure that raised much concern. The government has said that since then, the number of out-of-school children has dropped to seven million in 2006, based on state reports but not verified by any independent agency. Room to Read sees common cause with the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, the UPA government's flaship programme that aims to put every child in the 6-14 age group in school. "Providing resources inside the classroom is a major concern area in SSA. Our effort is in that direction", said Sunisha Ahuja, country director of Room To Read. To ensure that children get books and read in the school libraries that it funds, and also to help over worked teachers, the organization employs facilitators and has begun publishing children's books in Hindi. It will soon bring out titles in Telugu, Bengali and Marathi. Room to Read says it currently provides scholarships to 900 girls in India. Track more news items about the activities of Room to Read NGO in India at http://www.livemint.com/2007/04/23224219/NGO-blends-tech-traditional-l.h tml and http://www.livemint.com/UserControls/2007/02/23225517/GoldmanSachstofund -450-loca.html?atype=tp ; Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 28394959; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ Please visit us at IBC Summit (Hyderabad) between 10th and 12th October 2007 and at AAPS (San Diego) between 12th and 14th November 2007 at Booth number 3005. ************************************************************************************************ This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need Information
by M. Anisur Rahman 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Dear Professionals: I need to know the history of Universities libraries in undivided Bengal. I need articles/books on this. Can anyone help me in this regards. Md. Anisur Rahman Head Library and Inforamtion Division Northern University Bangladesh Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207 Bangladesh Mob: 00-88-01819273018 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Request
by Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Dear All Can I have the following article. G. M. Tsangaris et al. Journal of Materials Science, vol. 33 (Number 8) April 1998, pages 2027-2037 Regards. DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2355 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 Ph(Res): 91-33-23242100, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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REQUEST-FOR UGC NORMS-
by Manimekalai A 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Sir/madam, Is there any norms for appointing the Library Incharge/ Professor incharge for the university libraries? IF so What are the functions? please let me know - A.Manimekalai Asst. Librarian( Sr.Grade), Faculty of Engg. & Tech. Library, Annamalai University Annamalainagar- 608 002. Tamilnadu- INDIA Ph: (o) 04144-239175 Ph: (R)04144-228230 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Indian Initiatives ignored by "Working Group on Open Access and Open Educational Resources"
by Sukhdev Singh 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Dear Friends, I happen to visit Knowledge Commission Website < http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/ > yesterday. There I came come across a report submitted by "Working Group on Open Access and Open Educational Resources" < http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/downloads/documents/wg_open_course.pdf > It talks of two things – Open Educational Resources and Open Access. While I am happy that it mentions that India has done well in regard to Open Access. However I am disappointed with its annexures. These annexures provide exhaustive lists of various resources, but fail to mention any resource from India. It mentions PubMed (From NLM of US) but ignores IndMED – http://indmed.nic.in - the Indian bibliographic database indexing Indian Medical Journals and providing access without any restriction. Even the 38 full text journals available from medIND – http://medind.nic.in are ignored. It lists Bioline - an Open Access repository but fails to mention OpenMED@NIC - http://openmed.nic.in and other 24 Indian Open Access Repositories. It mentions Open Access publishers like BioMED but ignores Indian Open Access publishers like MedKnow. Interestingly it lists subscription-based service from Science Direct but fails mention work being done by Informatics, especially OpenJGate. Does not even talk of Vidyanidhi project – perhaps the first modern Digital Library concept from India. This Document lists Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam as one of its members – however it appears Prof. Arunachalam himself is ignorant of this report (Check out his reply to discussion on this topic at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/). Then, should we believe that the report has been written by some Post Graduate student without consulting the working group member 'experts'? Well we have an example of "Mashelkar committee on Patent Law" which had to be withdrawn when it was found to be a case of plagiarism < http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/22/stories/2007022206751200.htm >. I hope this is not the case here. Perhaps the Open Access concept has not been understood as yet. --Sukhdev Singh. http://www.sukhdevsingh.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KM India - The Knowledge Summit
by Aman Jha 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Dear Forum Members, I am delighted to inform you that Confederation of Indian Industry (CII ) is holding KM India - the Knowledge Summit, scheduled for 14th - 16th November, 2007 in New Delhi, India. This initiative is intended to support India's emergence as a knowledge superpower, in a connected global economy. KM India is an endeavor undertaken to create a more robust Indian knowledge ecosystem that generates economic value through the effective harnessing of knowledge and intellectual capital. Along with this we are hosting the Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Awards ceremony, which recognizes the best Indian organizations in KM based on an annual study conducted by Know Network. Shri Kapil Sibal , Minister of Science and Technology and Ocean Development would be preceding at the ceremony as the Chief Guest. Confirmations for participation include eminent achievers like Ashok Soota, Chairman & MD Mindtree Consulting; Sunil Bharti Mittal, President, CII & Chairman and Group CEO, Bharti Enterprises; Rory Chase, MD Teleos; Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, Zensar; Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor , IIT - Chennai , Dr. R Natarajan, former director, IIT - Chennai; Patrick Lambe, President Information and Knowledge Management Society, Singapore; Christian Bason, Innovation Manager MindLab; Raj Datta, GM - Knowledge Management, Mindtree Consulting; Dr JK Suresh, KM Head, Infosys; and many others. We are hopeful that Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India will inaugurate this Summit on 14th November. We would be happy to answer any queries from your end; you may please contact me or my colleague, Mansi Sharma at kmindia(a)ciionline.org. Please visit our website www.kmindia.in for more information on this summit. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel : 0124 4014060-67 Fax : 0124 4014080 Email : aman.jha(a)ciionline.org Web : www.cii.in; www.mycii.org/library DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reach us via our unique Membership Helpline: 00-91-11-435 46244 / 00-99104 46244 (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1700 hrs) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library on the lake" opens to public
by YS Rao 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Dear LISc Professionals, Greetings to all.... Library built on water opened to the public on Tuesday in eastern China's metropolis of Shanghai, giving people the pleasure of reading with great scenery..... (source:CRIENGLISH.com) Please click the following URL http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/30/content_6629693.htm -- Y. Srinivasa Rao Assistant Librarian NIT Rourkela-769008 Orissa Ph. 0661-2462101 (O) Ph. 0661-2463102 (R) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarywala.com
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Please see the message forwarded. Mumbai members of Lis-forum may comment on this. How can this group be successful given the geographic area they reach out being so large? What could be the secret of this (excellent) home delivery mode of books? Vyasamoorthy, P ========================== Meet the librarywalas Posted by: "karmayog.org - ganesh" info(a)karmayog.org Date: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:41 am ((PDT)) Meet the librarywalas Move over dabbawalas, now six friends provide books at your doorstep. All you have to do is log on and subscribe, to choose from the 8700 titles available By: Varun Singh Librarywala.com is a website for book lovers who cannot afford to buy all the books that are written but want to read all of them. This website was launched on August 1 by a set of six friends who missed reading books because they lacked money to buy them. The six good souls (at least for the bookworms) are Hiten Turakhia (29), Amit Gala (30), Hiten Dedhiya (27), Dhairyasheel Pawar (27), Shibanarayan Rath (27) and Kunal Gala (23). How they thought of it The six entrepreneurs who are family friends had a common hobby of reading books. Due to lack of money they missed reading books that they wanted to. They started chipping in money in small amounts and collected money for buying the books. Hiten Turakhia, who sits at the office in Wadala says, "There was a time when all of us wanted a management book but it was too costly. Dhairyasheel and Hiten decided to chip in money and buy the book. So in this way we bought our first book around ten years ago." He adds, "This helped us to save money and also enabled us to read as many books as we could but then till the time the book reached the last person in the group, some of its pages were torn and the books were in a poor state." After this they all planned to come out with something that is cheap but is of help, so the six friends started this website. The making of the website took them a period of eight months. Librarywala.com As the name suggests, it's a library where one is required to register himself to become a member, pay a membership fee of Rs 499 and a refundable deposit of Rs 499. The member can choose books from the collection of 8,700 books available. The next step is to select a plan. There are three plans - a basic plan for Rs 199, classic plan for Rs 299 and children plan for Rs 199. Under the basic plan, a member can select six books for one month and can take two books at a time. Classic plan provides a member with three books at one time and a maximum of 12 books. Under the Children's plan, kids can take two books at one time and a maximum 10 books in a month. The procedure is easy. A member has to queue the book as per his priority on the site and the delivery boys of librarywala.com will deliver the books at the doorsteps of the members. Currently there are 230 members in a span of one month out of which 110 are permanent whereas the remaining have filled the first form. All the six founders are from different fields of education. Some are MBA's, while the others are IT professionals and one is a chartered accountant. The website reaches people residing up till Dahisar in the western suburbs, Thane in the central, and till Panvel in Navi Mumbai. Hiten Turakhia states that the reason behind starting this website is to increase the ratio of the readers and also to stop piracy of books. The website The website is well maintained and updated on a daily basis. It has a search engine which makes it easy to find books, the listings have a snap shot of the cover, the author and the name of the publishers, a description of the book is given alongwith the ratings and the status of whether it's available or in circulation. The books are segregated into management, religious, self-help, children, health, biography, fiction, non-fiction and films. Rohan Samant a member of librarywala.com says, "I came to know about this website through my friend who saw their delivery bikes on the roads. I immediately became a member and till now have read eight books including Umberto Eco and Agatha Christi. I found it convenient as I don't have to go all the way to a library or a store to get a book." Devendra Naik another member of the website says, "The best thing about this library is I get the books delivered at my home and within a span of one month I have read books worth Rs 5,000 rupees for just Rs 299." Publication : Mid-day; Section : Worlds worth; Pg : 13; Date : 9/9/07 -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FREED.IN 2007 - Freedom from Technology and Software [An event of free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts]
by Susmita Chakraborty 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

FREED.IN 2007 - Freedom from Technology and Software [An event for free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts] Organized by School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Indian Linux Users Group- Delhi (ILUG-D) Dates: 28-29 September 2007 Venue: School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University campus FREED.IN is a leading community event in the Indian subcontinent and the developing world. FREED.IN promotes freedom and personal privacy in software, technology and other related fields. The annual event makes free and open source software (FOSS) more visible to the world, and shares its excitement with everybody. FREED.IN helps nurture the community and enables networking within and outside the community in a fun environment. The event strives towards seeding of new projects. Visit Conference website for more details: http://freed.in/ or http://conf.freed.in/index.php/freed/freed/ or http://www.jnu.ac.in/Seminar/freed.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ms. Susmita Chakraborty Kolkata, India Email: susmitachakraborty94[at]gmail[dot]com Personal Blog: http://susmitachakraborty.blogspot.com/ Please support: MANAS - a society for mentally disturbed persons their family and friends http://www.geocities.com/manas_teghari/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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